Lewis Thomas was attending a student production at Grosse Pointe South High School Friday night when a wave of buzzes and beeps swept over the audience.

“You could kind of see everyone’s phones start to buzz and you’d look at your phone and it said, ‘principal is suspected of emailing adult images’ and all that sort of stuff,” said Thomas, a 16-year-old junior at the school in Metro Detroit's Grosse Pointe Farms. “Afterward it just kind of exploded on Facebook and Twitter.”

On Saturday, Grosse Pointe Public School System released a statement confirming the resignations and noting that the two were "under investigation for violating the Technology Acceptable Use policy related to personal e-mails with inappropriate adult images."

Thomas told MLive Detroit a rumor about Diver being fired was floating around the high school for nearly two weeks, but no one actually thought the speculation was real.

Before heading into school today, students said they were shocked about the news because Diver always appeared to be such a serious person.

“It’s really messed up,” said Maxwell Liverance, a 16-year-old sophomore. “You wouldn't think Diver would do something like that. He was a really serious guy, and he’d walk down the hall and it’d be like Death was walking down the hall -- everybody was really quiet and stopped talking.”

Jonathan Griffin, a 17-year-old junior at South, said he is disappointed in the administrators, but is actually happy Diver is gone.

“He like glorified the school and didn’t pay as much attention to the students,” he said. “He didn’t know any of the students by name, except for the ones he saw every day.”

Griffin said he expects the news to be the main discussion between students today.

“It’s been all over Facebook and I haven’t talked to anybody else about it, but I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of talk today at school about it,” he said.

School district officials say Assistant Principal Joan Murphy will serve as acting principal for the rest of the school year, which ends June 16.

Mark Johnson, whose son is a sophomore at the school, said he would like to know more details about the entire situation involving the administrators, but is glad no students were involved.

“Did he access these files from his email or were they just on his personal email?” Johnson said. " I mean he’s a 60-year-old man."

“Luckily it wasn’t any kind of pedophile stuff.”

School district officials have not released what exactly was found in the emails, but say no students were involved.

Upon accepting the resignations, Klein stated: “The Grosse Pointe Board of Education and the district are strongly committed to behaviors that reflect professionalism in the classrooms and offices and on the computer network.”

Earlier reports declared Diver, who was the 2008 Michigan Principal of the Year by the Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals, was fired Friday.